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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1929
Page
5
The Daily Mail reports a devastating European storm battering the British Isles with ships sinking and coast guard actions hampered. Floods threaten central England while new technologies remind humanity of nature's enduring force.
Report notes Ranger Winess and Custodian Smith as the guiding hosts at the Petrified Forest, warmly welcoming visitors and sharing longstanding knowledge. With upcoming Santa Fe bus service, the Arizona wonderland is set to gain greater prominence and public acclaim.
The National Tuberculosis Association urges purchase of Christmas seals to fund TB work. Good Housekeeping notes TB deaths have fallen from 200 to under 100 per 100000 in 25 years and stresses prevention and treatment, with 800000 current cases. Purchases supply rest, care, and food for patients and back the campaign’s growing needs.
Former U S Secretary of State Kellogg is awarded the Legion of Honor in recognition of his work toward the Kellogg Peace Pact. The piece notes military movements with 800 Marines and an aircraft carrier heading for Haiti and mentions U S policy amid tensions with Russia over China and Nicaragua.
A poem contrasts peaceful imagery with lingering wartime realities. It notes Marine Corps leaves cancelled and US troops patrolling oceans while acknowledging old campaigns across Asia and the Pacific. The piece ends by asserting Mars remains America’s boss.
Weekly notices list events in Winslow: Lions Club and G I A Lodge luncheons at Community Hall, Masons elect officers, Rotary noon meeting at Guildhall, Mizpah Circle at Mrs C L Mc Farland, Women’s Benefit Association meeting, Friday play The Family Upstairs, Women’s Club gathering with Mrs G PR Stevens, and Sunday church services. Carnegie Tech football team stops for a workout on their California trip.
Memphis news reports plans to develop the former Dan Patch track site into 250 acres of factory plots. The historic track near Memphis, established 1901, hosted many races and heavy betting before a 1905 anti racing law ended the era.
Paris reports the Leviathan of the American fleet carried the most passengers across the Atlantic in the June to October tourist season. It landed or picked up 13,282 travelers at Cherbourg and handled 36,075 sacks of mail, ahead of the Majesty and Berengaria in passenger and mail totals.
In London a postwar reorganization proposal surfaces after Ramsay MacDonald returns from the U S mission. Sir Herbert Samuel leads a drive to rename the War Office to Army Department or Peace Department with a suggestion to create a Ministry of Defense.
A statewide gathering of good roads committees from chambers of commerce and related groups will meet in Tucson on December 11 to discuss completing hard surface work on the seven percent state highway system before extending it.
The bodies of Lieutenants R H Gilley and John Q Adams from March Field are held in Miami pending government investigation after their fatal plane crash. In Dairen a railway threat leads to removal of all Mah Jongg sets from worker clubs to curb all night sessions among Japanese employees.
Mrs A P Smith of 3104 Newton Ave San Diego reports dramatic relief after using Sargon Pills. She suffered long standing indigestion constipation weak liver and neuritis with kidney overactivity and back pain. After three bottles she eats well sleeps better and all pains have vanished. Central Drug Company was listed as agents.
Dr H N Bakhuysen of the University of Arizona will address the Western Naturalist Society in Monterey December 18 21 on internal causes of plant growth and report research findings. He plans a visit to the Stanford library at Palo Alto before returning to campus.
In South Knoxville on December 10, a Charm School program becomes part of Boyd Junior High. Pupils will learn streetcar etiquette, decipher railroad timetables, use the telephone, and master daily tasks. Table manners and handling formal invitations are among the listed subjects.
Marilyn Tinsley a 19 year old blonde sought in San Diego for check fraud was arrested in Phoenix after arriving with her husband Alv C. Tinsley seven days earlier. She admitted planning to use a forged name from a phone directory to obtain goods sent to a non existent address.
The University of Arizona in Tucson will offer a new course titled Biology of Protoplasia next semester. Horace Gunthorp, head of the biology department, announced the plan today.
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